Three Nordic Refractions: After Belonging Agency Discuss the Theme of the 2016 Oslo Trienniale

Three Nordic Refractions: After Belonging Agency Discuss the Theme of the 2016 Oslo Trienniale

In May 2016, the After Belonging Agency discussed the theme of the forthcoming Oslo Architecture Triennale—entitled After Belonging: a Triennale In-Residence, On Residence, and the Ways We Stay In-Transit—as part of In Therapy, the exhibition of the Nordic Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennale. The hour-long discussion, which also includes presentations by Shumi Bose and Füsun Türetken, begins with an in-depth description of how the Triennale intends to focus on the future challenges of migration by investigating how cities and architecture can react to large groups of people moving and resettling.

Oslo is Europe's fastest growing city and it is expected that, according to statistics, half of its population will consist of immigrants by 2040. "This global circulation of people," the Triennale believes, "creates new situations where our relationship to objects, places and belonging are changing."